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Westmorland and Furness Council will continue to provide key services over the Christmas and New Year Bank Holidays but some of its offices will be closed on 25 and 26 December 2025 and 1 January 2026. Limited offices will be open on 29, 30 and 31 December.

Westmorland and Furness Council is issuing early advice to keep people informed ahead of an Amber Weather Warning for heavy rain issued for the central Lakes area of Cumbria, and Yellow Warning for the entire area.

Local school leaders will help decide how best to spend a multi-million-pound education improvement fund.

Team Barrow is asking residents to join a conversation about what they want from the town centre, as part of the first phase of Barrow Rising’s Heart of Barrow regeneration programme.

Huntley Avenue Home Rated Outstanding across all areas, and Hart Street, rated as Good by Ofsted.

Residents invited to take part in series of community conversations to help shape Council's Climate Adaptation Strategy.

A contractor has been appointed and a 13-week programme of work agreed for work to reopen Ormsgill Lane in Barrow.

Cllr Jonathan Brook, the Leader of Westmorland and Furness Council, today welcomed confirmation from government of funding investment for the new Cumbria Combined Authority (CCA).

Cumbria will take its place at a new landmark investment summit showcasing the North of England on the global stage.

Cumbria is celebrating a major milestone: 80 per cent of properties now have access to gigabit-capable broadband.